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    <h2 id="some-finds-dont-have-a-default-path-specify--explicitly">Some
finds don't have a default path. Specify <code>.</code> explicitly.</h2>
<h3 id="problematic-code">Problematic code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="SC2185.html#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">find</span> <span class="at">-type</span> f</span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="correct-code">Correct code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb2"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb2-1"><a href="SC2185.html#cb2-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">find</span> . <span class="at">-type</span> f</span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="rationale">Rationale:</h3>
<p>When not provided a search path, GNU and Busybox <code>find</code>
will use a default path of <code>.</code>, the current directory.</p>
<p>On POSIX, macOS/OSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, it will instead
result in an error.</p>
<p>Explicitly specifying a path works across all implementations, and is
therefore preferred.</p>
<h3 id="exceptions">Exceptions:</h3>
<p>You will get a false positive if you concatenate a series of pre-path
flags:</p>
<pre><code>find -XLE .</code></pre>
<p>In such cases, please either use <code>find -X -L -E .</code> or <a
href="ignore.html">ignore</a> the message.</p>
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